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[[t]weɪ[/t]]

n.

1) manner, mode, or fashion: to reply in a polite way

2) characteristic or habitual manner: Her way is to work quietly and never complain

3) a method, plan, or means for attaining a goal: to find a way to reduce costs

4) a respect or particular: defective in several ways

5) a direction or vicinity: There's a drought out our way

6) passage or progress on a course: Lead the way

7) Often, ways. distance: They've come a long way

8) a path or course: the shortest way to town

9) a road, passage, or channel (usu. used in combination): highway; waterway

10) Often, ways. a habit or custom: to cling to the ways of the old country

11) one's preferred manner of acting or doing:

He always gets his own way[/ex]

12) condition; state: He's in a bad way

13) the range or extent of one's experience or notice: the best idea that's come my way

14) space for passing or advancing: to clear a way through the crowd

15) a course of life, action, or experience: the way of transgressors

16) Naut.

a) navig. ways, two or more ramps that a hull slides along in being launched

b) naut. movement or passage through the water

17) mac Mach. a longitudinal strip, as in a planer, guiding a moving part along a surface

18) sl. very; really:

That car is way cool![/ex]

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- by the way by way of give way give way to go all the way go out of one's way look the other way have a way with have one's way with in a way in someone's lead the way make one's way make way no way out of the way see one's way (clear) under way

19) sl. very; really:

Her new bike is way cool![/ex]

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Etymology: bef. 900; ME wei(gh) e, wai, OE weg, c. OOHG weg, ON vegr, Go wigs; akin to wain, weigh way′less, adj. syn: See method II

way

[[t]weɪ[/t]] adv.

1) Also, 'way. away; from this or that place: Go way

2) to a great degree or at quite a distance; far: way too heavy; way down the road

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Etymology: 1175–1225; ME, aph. var. of away